Materazzi says that he grabbed Zidane's shirt in a tackle and that Zidane responded by alledgedly looking at him arrogantly and saying that "he could have the shirt" after the match. Materazzi than replied with an insult of "the usual kind which you hear several times a match". He claims that he did not say anything about Zidane's mother (Materazzi lost his own mother when he was 14) and did not use the word terrorist.